Posts tagged ‘Haiku’
Jan 1
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 24
“Laughing without laughing is only possible with the laughing of the eyes!” –Anon.
Merry woes
Thro’ soul’s windows show
Go Ho-Ho!
In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. —Linda Ellerbee
Dec 6
“Humans are amphibians…half spirit and half animal…as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” –C.S. Lewis
The aim of this art is to illuminate “amphibian” humanity’s higher nature, by bringing timeless moments of the eternal world to light, via abstract expressions of emotions that strike an infinite ring of truth outside of time, like the ring around the sound of water a frog jumps in. The quotes may help inhabitants of time make sense of these intimations of im(art)ality now.
Immortality through art means moving away from time. To achieve a moment of eternity. —Bassam AL-Radaideh
Oct 24
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ―William Shakespeare
To the blinking eye of the patient observer, the persistence of harmony in Nature’s panoply of arrays, reveals itself in the altogether.
When most I wink, then do my eyes best see. —William Shakespeare
Sep 23
“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.” ―Groucho Marx
Libra’s gift
Balancing star charms
Akimbo
I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I’m a Libra! —Laura Regan
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Sep 14
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” ―Khalil Gibran
Fierce beauty
Excites sights we greet
In great dreams
To love beauty is to see light. —Victor Hugo
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Aug 13
“Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.” ―Tom Robbins
Wordsmithing
My labor of love
Forging verbs
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. —Arnold H. Glasow
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Jul 31
“I’m a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.” ―Melanie Fiona
Role model
Portrait in progress
Myth Dolly
Inspired by a doll with a mythic past and larger-than-life presence, this series portrays the artist’s impressions of a retro-progressive lifestyle influencer, a timeless role model for Yin charisma, if you will, ever becoming wow in the emerging now.
Jul 14
“The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.” ―Criss Jami
This post illuminates our dim wit in a dark age of cleverness, and begs the question: Do clever cracks reveal signs of light, or watt?
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. ―Arthur Smith
Jun 14
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